News for corporate and in-house counsel in Canada from @Lexpert. Key Media.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2011
Geopolitics isn’t background noise – for in-house counsel at a Chinese SOE, it’s a daily professional baseline. Bryan Morin of PetroChina Canada on LNG Canada’s Phase 2 FID and what separates useful from merely correct legal advice lexpert.ca/news/energy-law/b… #Energy
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Fear isn’t a strategy – but blind optimism isn’t either. @Aarani Stoneham drafted her keynote with AI, then told attendees at the @CanLawMag Canadian Legal Summit: you can’t supervise what you don’t understand. +600 attendees #CanadianLegalSummit canadianlawyermag.com/news/g…
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$50M — the annual cost of delay per major energy project in one province. Three energy GCs gave their verdict on Canada’s regulatory environment: good intentions, not enough. One fix: mandatory timelines. One project, one review. canadianlawyermag.com/news/f… #Legal #Energy
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Flexibility and uncertainty define insolvency and restructuring in Canada. RVOs, creditor-led CCAA and trade disruption are reshaping how lawyers work, writes @timbwilbur lexpert.ca/news/insolvency-r…
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General counsel compensation climbs 23.3 percent over five years. New report finds growing equity awards and changes in GC executive and board representation lexpert.ca/news/in-house-law…
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DLA Piper expands investment funds practice with partner James O’Shea. He has worked with global asset managers, institutional investors, and family offices lexpert.ca/news/finance-law/…
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Gap between AI adoption and effective governance widening: @ACCinhouse report. In-house legal departments are using AI, but many organizations have not set governance structures lexpert.ca/news/technology-l…
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NB inks infrastructure agreement with federal government. Through the agreement, over $461 million will be invested in priority projects in NB lexpert.ca/news/infrastructu…
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Rhonda Goldberg re-elected to CIRO’s board for a two-year term. Marc Provost also joins the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization’s board lexpert.ca/news/finance-law/…
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Federal change to the right to strike splits the labour bar. Union and employer counsel clash over new limits in Bill C-39’s s. 107 rewrite and whether it survives Charter scrutiny canadianlawyermag.com/practi…
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Building Canada Strong: lawyers weigh in on ‘coordinated consultation.’ Thomas Isaac @Cassels questions Ottawa's will to decide; Aashish Oberoi at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP warns a rushed timeline could erode trust canadianlawyermag.com/news/g…
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John Greiss’s background as a pharmacist-lawyer serves him well at Sentrex. The CLO on building a legal function from scratch, AI governance in healthcare, and the reality of in-house practice lexpert.ca/news/health-scien…
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Finalized guidelines released for crypto-asset exposures. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions also published guidance on insurance regulatory reporting lexpert.ca/news/finance-law/…
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